Two mysterious gold rings plus one missing body equals a puzzle of a case for Lina Townend: the warm, independent novice antique dealer with an uncanny nose for a bargain and a talent for sniffing out trouble!

Driving home from an auction on a wet autumn evening, Lina slams on the brakes. She’s alone on a deserted country road — and just yards away, in the middle of a field, lies a body.

But by the time she finds help and returns with the police, the corpse has vanished without a trace.

Shaken, Lina returns to her cosy cottage and makes a much nicer discovery: hidden inside a battered box of junk she bought at the sale is a medieval gold ring. And when she stumbles on its twin days later, she’s delighted.

But the glittering rings hold deadly secrets. Lina soon begins to fear they were stolen from a local archaeological dig — and that they may be linked to her disappearing corpse.

Lina’s determined to unearth the truth and protect her reputation for honesty. But how can she solve a murder when no one, apart from her beloved mentor Griff, believes there’s even been one?